Let’s take the following sentence:

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words = "These are some words"

We can use slices to reverse the order of the string:

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print( words[::-1] )
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Let’s say we wanted to reverse each word in the sentence, but keep the order of words.

We can once again use slices, but we will compliment it with a list comprehension:

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print( " ".join([word[::-1] for word in words.split(" ")]) )
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How to Reverse words without using inbuilt modules

Let’s take this a bit further. Let’s say that we were not allowed to use our cool new slice toy, how could we reverse a string?

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words = "These are some words"

out = ""
for i in range(len(words)-1, -1, -1):
  out += words[i]

print(out)
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As we can see, this is the same as doing words[::-1], which shows the power and simplicity of slices!

We created a variable to hold our new string, then created a loop, counting from the last item in the index, to 0. We also made sure to do this in reverse.

In each iteration, we appended to our output string.